[patch] use __builtin_ctzl in ggc-page
Zack Weinberg
zack@codesourcery.com
Sat Jan 15 01:31:00 GMT 2005
Steven Bosscher <stevenb@suse.de> writes:
> Hi,
>
> The page allocator looks for free objects by keeping bitmaps of
> taken slots in a bag. We look for a 0 bit with a loop right now,
> but we could use a builtin instead, like Nathan did recently for
> the revamped bitmap.c.
>
> Bootstrapped on x86_64-suse-linux-gnu, OK?
This optimization is clearly desirable, but IIRC (it has been
discussed before) the preferred way to do it was by using ffs() [which
should be automatically optimized by recent GCC] and making sure that
function has a fallback in libiberty.
It might improve things further to invert the sense of the in_use_p
bits, so that *un*used chunks had their bits 1.
zw
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